Sentences with phrase «about a hundred years»

He was given no word on how he was supposed to go about boarding and securing a ship, something the marines hadn't made part of their repertoire for about a hundred years.

It came out about a hundred years ago.

This trade was probably common as early as 2000 B.C.E. Interestingly, Gen. 37:25 - 28 mentions Ishmaelite merchants who used camels to transport incense to Egypt about a hundred years after the time of Abraham.

He did not weaken in trust (pistis) when he considered his own body, which was already as good as dead (for he was about a hundred years old), or when he considered the barrenness of Sarah's womb.

About a hundred years after the Origin the SCM Press published Metaphysical Beliefs: Three Essay, by the English philosophers S. Toulmin, R. W. Hepburn, and A. MacIntyre.

Concerning the Bible there was very little skepticism until about a hundred years ago, when the impact of the modern scientific age began to make itself felt.

About a hundred years after Christ, Ptolemy postulated that the earth was a sphere, though immovable, at the center of the universe, round which the heavenly bodies moved.

All Christians and Jews, and that meant nearly all Europeans, accepted this simple view of origins as a matter of course until about a hundred years ago, and some Christians still cling firmly to it with varying modifications.

About a hundred years ago the German scholar Otto Ribbeck conjectured that half a dozen of the later satires were not by Juvenal at all but by a forger who copied something of his manner without equaling his spirit.

Let's start at the very beginning, or at least, let's go back about a hundred years ago.

You went to the wrong high school — we had beautiful powder blue uniforms with matching powder blue shakos (that was back about a hundred years ago, but I still remember them fondly).

Within about a hundred years, chocolate established a foothold throughout Europe.

Whith a waiting list that goes on for about a hundred years populated by idiots who have no idea of Arsenal and the clubs traditions waiting to hand thier money over even if the whole of the faithfull gave up thier season tickets the board would still be getting what it wants.

Edith was one of the most popular names in the U.S. about a hundred years ago and has lost its appeal since.

I'm glad to get back to work on getting my constituency office sorted out — I feel about a hundred years younger since getting back and getting some proper sleep.

Powell's grandfather helped relocate the church from midtown to its current location about a hundred years ago.

It takes about a hundred years for the new growth to store as much carbon as the old forest, they calculate.

About a hundred years ago, however, the term marijuana became common in the United States, the result of anti-cannabis, anti-immigrant advocates trying to link recreational use of the plant to migrant workers from Mexico.

It would take the whole Galaxy about a hundred years to radiate as much energy in starlight as was produced in the outburst.

«If they did grow, they'd go out of tune about every hundred years,» Moyer said.

The network has been named after Julius Bernstein (1835 — 1917), the German scientist who formulated about hundred years ago his «Membrane Theory» stating that

«If emissions are rapidly reduced, then the decrease in the fraction of radiocarbon in the atmosphere will be equivalent to only about a hundred years of radioactive decay,» said Graven.

It just went horribly wrong about a hundred years ago.

But if you've seen me in real life, you would be forgiven for thinking that I haven't slept for about a hundred years.

If there's one thing my friends insist on buying me, it's eye masks (thanks guys)... But if you've seen me in real life, you would be forgiven for thinking that I haven't slept for about a hundred years.

Whiiiich makes me sound about a hundred years old.

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Yet there is no doubt that «Prometheus,» set about a hundred years from now and starring Noomi Rapace («The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo») as an archaeologist leading a space mission to capital - T Trouble, is an «Alien» - derived life form.

During a unit on bony fish, Kelley teaches her eleventh and twelfth graders about gyotaku, a form of fish printing that Japanese fisherman used about a hundred years ago.

Well, at one time or another, most everybody has, since they were first used about a hundred years ago.

St George for England by G.A. Henty I came across a copy of this not long ago and was astonished to find how bad it is, mostly undigested chunks of history about the Hundred Years» War, with our hero popping up from time to time to have an adventure.

But, it not being his body, when that body sleeps or dies, it's off to another body, and on, and on, body switching backward and forward in time, for about a hundred years duration, called in the Bible the «aioniu amartematos», aeon of failure.

However, about a hundred years later and with newer technology, the asscher got an update.

Once dogs joined our «tribe,» and before the birth of the commercial pet food industry about a hundred years ago, people fed dogs food scraps and raw meaty bones.

«Dog food» has only been around for about a hundred years... whadayah think dogs were fed before that!?

Franz Liszt's fans experienced Lisztomania about a hundred years before Beatlemania hit New York.

I see that mr. Boone, has run into trouble and right now oil is dirt cheap (let us see how long that lasts) but now that we are officially in recession (two consecutive quarters down) and the oil and gas companies boast record profits and the oil, natural gas, and coal resources will all last longer than 25 years by most projections (coal about a hundred years give or take a decade?)

One of the limits of climatology is that we only have about a hundred years of scientifically gathered weather data, and we know that they don't give us the full story.

Near global observations of other surface «weather» variables, such as precipitation and winds, have been made for about a hundred years.

That should take about a hundred years.

«This is part of a journey that we've been on for about a hundred years to understand what are the building bocks of matter and the forces that stick them together», said Cox, after being asked if there was nothing more useful that the money could have been spent on.

We have observed climate really intensely for maybe 30 years, and with any kind of reliable measurements for no more than about a hundred years.

I think about the house I call home today, and wonder what it will say about me a hundred years from now.

Not exact matches

It's about making hundreds of changes per week, not per year.»

«I hope, a hundred years from now they're thinking about the day that we were in this room and what happened this day.»

Former intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning, who leaked hundreds of thousands of documents to Wikileaks, has no regrets about her actions, even after serving seven years in prison.

The partners are talking about hundreds more over the next five years.

A similar law enacted about a year ago in North Carolina prompted the relocation of sporting events and economic boycotts that were estimated to have cost the state hundreds of millions of dollars.

Last year, the retail giant said it would spend about $ 2.7 billion on higher wages for hundreds of thousands of workers at its U.S. stores in 2015 and 2016.

We get sent hundreds of business books a year, all in the hope that someone here reads one and decides to write about it.